Indian Ocean Storm

Indian Ocean Storm

A pre-winter storm off the Australian coast on 29 march 2014. Click for larger. Image: International Space Station.

This was a “pre-winter” storm off the coast of southwestern Australia was photographed from the International Space Station while over the southeastern Indian Ocean (at about 45.6 deg south and 108.9 deg west) on March 29th. The clockwise cloud pattern is opposite for storms in the north. I don’t know what the scale of the image is but the strom looks pretty large.